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The auction season is upon us, and some startling sales last week were another reminder just how good an investment fine wine can be. Auctions by Sotheby’s in both London and New York raised much more than was anticipated, with the New Bond Street house amassing £2.67 m (nearly a full million more than expected). […]

Expect the unexpected is probably the only conclusion we can reach after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. This most unpredictable of years is likely to be followed by another, at least as far as financial markets are concerned. Volatility, already nurtured by Brexit, is the one thing we can be reasonably confident […]

2016 will be seen to have been a year where the old predictabilities were firmly moved aside, the people are voting for change on both sides of the Atlantic. The US electorate has voted in Tycoon Trump to the most powerful political position in the world and the markets are responding to what can realistically […]

Early intelligence from Burgundy on the 2016 vintage points to terrific quality but yet another year of low yields. While this will be a disappointment for Burgundian growers, who will be envious of the contrastingly high yields in Bordeaux, it should be good news for investors. Yes, there will be limited stock available, but the […]

The responsibility for the Wine Advocate’s perspective on Bordeaux was passed last year from the wine world’s most influential critic, Robert Parker Jnr, to his appointed successor, Neal Martin. Much was made of the fact that the 2015 vintage en primeur tastings this Spring were the first without Parker and since then the market has […]

The Vin-X team attended Bordeaux’s Union de Grand Cru trade tasting of the 2014 vintage in London last week, the opinion of which has evolved to now being determined as “a good vintage not yet showing at its best.” There has been ongoing industry debate over the last four en primeur campaigns (2012 – 2015 […]

Following the untimely death, this Spring of Paul Pontalier, Château Margaux has now announced the appointment of Philippe Bascaules as Managing Director to commence 1st March 2017. Bascaules currently runs Francis Ford Coppola’s Napa Valley-based Inglenook Winery and he will continue to oversee the 50-year vineyard plan he set in motion when he joined the […]

Successive great years in Bordeaux are nothing new – reference 1988-90 and 2009-10 – and it appears the much-lauded 2015 vintage has been followed by another exceptional one in 2016. At the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux annual tastings in London this week, two Bordelais grandees, Olivier Bernard and Christian Seely, were lavishing […]

Nick Clegg, the new EU spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, has warned that if the Government doesn’t secure a new trade agreement with the EU within two years then tariffs will automatically be imposed as soon as we leave the trading bloc. The former Deputy Prime Minister is due to publish a report warning that […]

Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW, and advisor to the Royal Wine Cellar, was interviewed by the BBC’s John Pienaar on his Sunday morning politics show on October 16th for her view on the effect of Brexit on the wine market. Once you get passed Alex Salmond’s, another of Pienaar’s guests on the show, embarrassing attempts to […]